Hong Kong Bans Live Poultry Imports From China

Bird Flu Virus Detected in Chickens From Guangdong

HONG KONG—Hong Kong stepped up its fight against bird flu on New Year’s Eve, as live poultry imports from China were banned and government workers began to cull about 15,000 chickens in a wholesale poultry market.

The moves came after the city’s health authorities on Wednesday confirmed a strain of bird flu virus known as H7 bird flu in a batch of live chickens imported from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.